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Arch and GeneLink market "genetic" skin care kit. (Supplier's Corner).


* Arch Personal Care Products LP, a unit of Arch Chemicals Founded in 1999, Arch Chemicals (NYSE: ARJ) is a biocides company with over a billion dollars in annual sales. It consists of four divisions:
  • Water Treatment Products
  • Wood Protection
  • Industrial Biocides
  • Personal Care Products
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 Inc., and GeneLink Inc., Margate, NJ, have begun collaborative efforts to market newly-developed formulations containing skin care actives that can be linked to GeneLink's genetic testing Genetic Testing Definition

A genetic test examines the genetic information contained inside a person's cells, called DNA, to determine if that person has or will develop a certain disease or could pass a disease to his or her offspring.
 system for determining an individual's skin characteristics, executives said.

GeneLink and Arch began jointly developing the new category of "genetic" skin care formulations and an associated personalized per·son·al·ize  
tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es
1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner.

2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify.
 skin-testing system in late 2001. The newest formulations feature a family of active ingredients An active ingredient, also active pharmaceutical ingredient (or API), is the substance in a drug that is pharmaceutically active. Some medications may contain more than one active ingredient. , called SNP-Derms, that address some of the key individual genetic characeristics that can accelerate skin aging, skin wrinkling and other oxidative stress oxidative stress,
n an imbalance of the prooxidant antioxidant ratio in which too few antioxidants are produced or ingested or too many oxidizing agents are produced.
 deficiencies in the skin.

The SNP-Derm formulations can be offered in combination with GeneLink's Dermagenic Profile Assesment that provides a measure of an individual's resistance to skin aging, irritation and tissue breakdown. More info: Website: www.genelink.info.
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